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Oaxaca

The Oaxaca Trail

The heartland of mezcal

Oaxaca produces the majority of certified mezcal — from the espadín fields of Santiago Matatlán to the wild tobalá of the Sierra Sur. Work through this trail to taste the range of a single state that behaves like a dozen.

  • Santiago Matatlán — the self-declared world capital of mezcal
  • Sierra Sur wild agaves: tobalá, tepeztate, madrecuishe
  • Copper-still and clay-pot (barro) distillation side by side

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Bottles on the Oaxaca trail